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Re: sequence manipulation functions


From: Daniel Colascione
Subject: Re: sequence manipulation functions
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:54:17 +0000
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On 11/05/2014 04:58 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> This library has the same problem as cl: it defines functions
> which don't have a name prefix, and are therefore liable to conflict
> with users' own functions.

I've never been particularly receptive to that line of thinking. Who's
to say that our chosen prefixes won't conflict with user functions?
Requiring some unlikely prefix for all future additions to the Emacs
core is too burdensome a requirement.

Then again, I thought we should merge cl-lib without the cl- prefix, but
I lost that one.

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